Posts Tagged ‘The Torture Series’

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    Lesser known Bollywood clichés of yore
    I am bored of my posts. Verbosity, forced philosophical innuendos, too much reading into things and the same dour themes. Hell, I needed a break. So I went back in time and read those dog-eared cinema diaries from my childhood. Back in those days, I had no choice but to sit with my family and watch those films of the 70s/80s and the early 90s. It’s only now that...
    by Neeraj Ghaywan at June 28th, 2009 at 05:06 pm
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    The Torture Series 7 : Ashanti
    Caution: Post contains sexual language and content. It was a time when action had made its entry and was lapped up by one and all. The anger of the masses during the emergency, the entry of a Congress alternative for the first time at the helm of politics – the Janata Party and its subsequent fall out and the return of Indira Gandhi as our PM, the Naxalite movement,...
    by oz at October 20th, 2008 at 07:10 pm
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    The Torture Series 6: Marte Dam Tak
    Warning: Post contains sexual language and content If Jeetendra was at the helm of starting the 80s fire of cinematic depression, it were people like Mehul Kumar, Eesmayel Shroff, Pranlal Mehta, Mithun Chakraborthy and many others of the wonderful PKTK club, who willingly or unwillingly put ghee in the fire thereby increasing the depression to many many more years. But...
    by oz at September 16th, 2008 at 08:09 pm
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    The Torture Series 5: Mawaali
    They were the dark ages. Shockingly after an amazing 70s. Creativity was the last thing on everyones mind. No one cared. Hindi cinema was treated as a prostitute by those who had come in to make money. And that was their only objective. Dish out a 3 hour film to make money. Video had made it’s foray into India and almost overnight – video became the villain...
    by oz at September 9th, 2008 at 05:09 pm
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    The Torture Series 4: Main Khilona Nahin
    Warning: Post contains strong language & sexual content. Alcohol. Perhaps it was the same destination of the 80s producers. And many many financiers of those darn 80s and 90s. On one hand, from a different point of view, I feel pity. These producers sold everything they had, borrowed as much as they could, pawned their wife’s jewelry (case in point: N.Chandra...
    by oz at September 1st, 2008 at 10:09 pm
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    The Torture Series 3: Bhavani Junction
    Warning: Post contains strong language and sexual content. Imagine, me entering my hitlerian Dad’s room. Imagine me asking for his permission to go out and see a movie called Bhavani Junction. Then imagine Pitashree’s right hand moving in slow motion, big tight palms connecting to my left cheek sending me flying out of his room in slo mo. Had that incident...
    by oz at August 26th, 2008 at 06:08 pm
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    The Torture Series 2: Insaaf Main Karoonga
    Warning: Strong Language and Sexual Content. It was 1985. Indira Gandhi had been assassinated about a year ago. I was consistently in a state of depression. No not because of the tragic demise of Mrs. Gandhi, but because of some kind of chemical locha in my head. Unfortunately Munnabhai had not yet come alive. He would 20 years later. That year, Sanjay Dutt had just returned...
    by oz at August 20th, 2008 at 07:08 am
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    The Torture Series 1: Mehndi Rang Layegi
    It’s out of control. Everyone is on the streets waving their laptops and desktops, furiously typing in their next blog to kick ass. Every Friday with every new movie. It’s as if all the frustrations and anger and whatever acid they pour in their morning cup of tea, coffee or brewery – all of it comes out in a yellowish to red puke form on the reviews...
    by oz at August 18th, 2008 at 12:08 pm
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